Format for a secure relative URL

[awingnut]

I have a web page that needs to maintain relative links. However, one link needs to be a secure one. How do I specify a relative URL that uses 'https'? Specfically:

<a href=&quot;/myfolder/mypage.html&quot;>

TIA.

 

[tviman]

You can only use relative links within the same domain. A secure server (

https://www.yoursite.com),

although part of the same domain (

http://www.yoursite.com),

must be treated as another domain and must be called explicitly.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[awingnut]

Rats! Thanks for the reply but it wasn't what I wanted to hear.

 

[clarkin]

HTTP vs HTTPS is just the transfer protocol - the actual page sent in both cases is the same.

So you could just refer to it the normal way (<a href=&quot;/myfolder/mypage.html&quot;>) which will request using the current page's protocol, and then check in mypage.html if the request is coming over HTTP or HTTPS, and redirect accordingly.

Eg, in an ASP page I would just:

'if this request wasn't through HTTPS
if Request.ServerVariables(&quot;HTTPS&quot;) <> &quot;on&quot; then
  'then redirect it back to here via HTTPS
  Response.Redirect(&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]https://&quot;[/URL] & request.serverVariables(&quot;SERVER_NAME&quot;) & request.serverVariables(&quot;SCRIPT_NAME&quot;))
end if

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